Voicing African Voices

Housing Law

Agriculture Development Studies Housing Law Law Property & Land Law Science, Technology, Medecine Social Sciences

After Radical Land Reform

Restructuring agricultural cooperatives in Zimbabwe and Japan Comparing the Zimbabwean and Japanese agrarian experience may sound impossible. Still, the similarities in the socio-economic and…

Housing Law Human & Civil Rights Law Politics Property & Land Law

African Land Rights Systems

by Aquiline Tarimo, S.J.

This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of…

Gender & Women's Studies Housing Law Law Property & Land Law Social Sciences

Sénégal: Les femmes rurales à l’épreuve d’une citoyenneté foncière

by Fatou Diop Sall and Ramata Molo Thioune

L’accès des femmes aux ressources foncières a fait l’objet de plusieurs recherches et de publications. Cependant rares sont celles qui ont exploré cette problématique…

Housing Law Law Property & Land Law

Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa

by Michael Akomaye Yanou

An African Perspective This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou…

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